Debra Harker

Before becoming an academic, Debra Harker worked as a marketing consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick Management Consultants in the UK and AGB McNair in Australia. She achieved a BA(Hons) in business studies at South Bank University, London, and evaluated the effectiveness of the advertising self–regulatory scheme in Australia for her doctorate, which was awarded by Griffith University in Brisbane. She is a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and publishes in quality journals around the world.